Definitions

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  • noun Someone who is part of a subculture in Sweden concerned with American cars and music of the 1950s; also, this subculture taken as a whole.

Etymologies

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From Swedish raggare, from ragga ("to drive around"), from dialectal term raga ("to stagger").

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  • I was cute enough to be mistaken as a girl as a young punk so I hardly got into any trouble with the raggare.

    Killed By Death Records 2009

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